Brooo I can't believe that worked.
"Don't let your guard down, he's chasing us," my mob friend signalled me.
I mean, obviously he would chase us down. That's just how Reinhardt is.
But then, looking behind me, I see Reinhardt running towards us at full speed, maybe even double the speed we've been running.
And that form while running, he looks like some kind of terminator.
Sigh, I miss the tank Reinhardt I know.
Unknowingly, a tear dropped in my eyelids, getting the attention of our new recruit with a face saying "what the f"
I'm sorry, but if you're sticking with me, then you gotta stick with my antics too.
"By the way, where are we going?" Asked by our new recruit.
Hmm, by the looks of it, Reinhardt is going to catch up soon. Thankfully I have someone in mind to fully stop him.
"Everyone, follow my movement very closely from now on."
The two of them looked in confusion, but did my instructions anyways.
We jumped to a tree and use it as our means of transportation. Getting closer and closer to "him" also means there will be more and more traps appearing.
And, knowing "him," he'll probably intercept us right about... Now!
"Hehe, someone has actually fallen to my trap! Oh, wait, wait wait! Why are you guys ignoring me!"
It's Nichos who was waiting. But we just ignored him And continued on our way. He's slow anyways.
Besides, going here is enough to loss Reinhardt, especially since Nichos still has a grudge against him.
We run with all of our might, just to have this opportunity to escape. Soon, the sound of footsteps following us earlier has vanished. Meaning he probably gave up on the pursuit, facing Nichos instead.
"Is this enough distance from us?"
"Yeah... Haa... Haa... I think so."
I answered his question while panting, dropping to the ground from exhaustion.
The new recruit did the same.
Hmm, his physical capabilities is almost the same as mine, weak.
Our gossip friend however, is just sweating Abit while looking afar.
The direction she's looking at is where Reinhardt and Nichos are currently at.
"Hey, who do you think will win between those two?"
Ahh, so you're just curious about that huh? Makes sense. She's probably itching to watch the fight herself.
You could even here the cshing of the sword from this distance. Looks like Nichos is putting up a good fight even though he got one tapped by Reinhardt st time.
"Probably Nichos," I replied. She just nodded in response.
She seems to be agreeing with me.
Well, that's just natural.
While Nichos is very weak in a one on one confrontation, he covers it up by the sheer amount of intellect in a war.
Just give him prep time, and he would beat everyone else in this world. That's just how strong he is if given the right circumstances.
"Well, none of that matters right now. We should go with set B of our pn—"
I stood up expining our pns, but something cut my sentence off.
An unexpected situation. A graze on my cheek appeared seemingly out of nowhere.
Blood oozes from my wound.
"GET DOWN! SNIPER!"
Holy shit you don't know how much I wanted to say that.
The three of us got down and used the surrounding trees as a cover. I don't know where the bullet came from so we ducked low enough not to be seen but high enough to run whenever possible.
"I'm using every bit of mana I got, but my mana detection isn't picking up anything—"
*BOOM*
Something exploded besides our new recruit, destroying a small tree in the process.
I miss the bullet again. Couldn't see the general direction of the bullet.
Isn't this too high of a calibre for a mob doing this?
Then, is it a major character? Or at the very least, a side character?
No, they couldn't be it. I don't remember someone being able to do this kind of thing. Sniping people from more than 600 meters away isn't one of them. I mean, of course someone will be able to do it in the future but it's not now!!
At the very least, I should figure out the direction where it's being fired.
"There," My mod friend pointed a the gigantic tree. "Someone's shooting at us there."
Both me and new recruit looked at her with surprise.
"What? If you're not satisfied, it's probably high pressurized water magic we're being shot by. Someone from that three is using that magic to snipe us from above, the one we're camping earlier."
No no no mob friend, that's not it. We're just wondering how in the world you figured that out.
Well, thinking about it, she did has an abnormally fast reaction time. I mean, what did you expect from the mob who can expin every attack in detail!
But still, that doesn't answer the question of who is doing this? How?
Is it really just a mob?
...
Or is it a deviant?
"Then, could you figure out who's firing that magic?" New recruit asked.
She pondered for a few seconds before giving an answer.
"It's Elise," she answered. "Mainly because she's the only one that fits the criteria. That being currently present there while also having an affinity towards water magic."
Hmm, makes sense.
Then, out of nowhere, another explosion rang out before us.
Then again and again and again.
With each passing moment, the terrain gets distorted more and more.
"We can't stay like this we have to go to another hiding spot."
"I'll cover us. Mana detection range, 10 meters."
When Recruit muttered that, the surrounding mana changed from being spread to being close to one another, making a tight space of overflowing mana.
Since a person can control their mana like a limb, he can practically do anything within this space.
That's rather a scary thought.
Anyways, we then ran wildly from left to right, trying to loose the attention of Elise. Jumping from pce to pce like a monkey.
Yet with even all of that effort, another explosion rang out in front of us.
"How the heck is she sniping us from this distance??"
Like, we're almost at the edge of the map, give me a break!
But, there is a pattern I'm seeing. To accurately guess our general direction, but not being able to hit us directly.
Did she pnt a tracker on us?
